Aaron Flint Jamison (born 1979) is an American

conceptual art Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called inst ...

ist and associate professor in the

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. He works with various media including

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, and

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Life and work

Jamison was born in Billings, Montana. He received a B.A. from

Trinity Western University , mottoeng = A Mighty Fortress Is Our God , established = Trinity Junior College (1962–1972), Trinity Western College (1972–1985), Trinity Western University (1986–present) , type = Privat ...

, Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2002 and an M.F.A. from

San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a private college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mississippi River. Approximatel ...

in 2006. He co-founded the artist-run center

Department of Safety The Department of Safety was an artist-run community space founded in 2002, located in Anacortes, Washington's old police and fire station. It housed an all-ages music venue, art gallery, artist residency program, zine library, darkroom, artists' ...

(2002–2010) in Anacortes, Washington, and he was a co-founder of the art center

Yale Union Yale Union was a nonprofit contemporary art center in southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. Located in the Yale Union Laundry Building built in 1908, the center was founded in 2008. In 2020, the organization announced it would transfer the ...

(YU) in Portland, Oregon. "Yale Union (YU) operated as a non-profit exhibition, production, and community space since 2010 through 2020, when it completed the transfer of ownership of the land and building to the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation (NACF)." "The transfer of the Yale Union to NACF to support the cultural continuance of Indigenous communities is unprecedented, a first,” said

Joy Harjo Joy Harjo ( ; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. She was also only the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetr ...

, Mvskoke poet and former poet laureate of the United States. Jamison is the founder and editor-in-chief of '' Veneer Magazine,'' a subscription-based art publication. Veneer is an 18-issue publication, the issues of which are, "lavishly produced, combining different paper stocks, and analogue and digital print techniques." Jamison's work is held in the permanent collection of the

Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–194 ...

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* Artists Space, New York (2013) *

Miguel Abreu Gallery Miguel Abreu Gallery is a contemporary art gallery with two locations in New York City. History Miguel Abreu Gallery opened its first space at 36 Orchard Street in 2006 in the Lower East Side of New York City. A second 8,000 square foot space ...

, New York (2015) * Air de Paris, Paris (2015) * Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2017) * Galerie Max Mayer, Düsseldorf (2017) * Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2019) * ''Opportunity Zones'', Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, (2019)

Group exhibitions

* ''Frozen Lakes,'' Artists Space (2013) * ''Sequence 5,'' Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2014) *

Liverpool Biennial Liverpool Biennial is the largest international contemporary art festival in the United Kingdom. Every two years, the city of Liverpool hosts an extensive range of artworks, projects, and a programme of events. The biennial commissions leading ...

, Liverpool (2014) * ''Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner,'' Whitney Museum of American Art (2015–2016) * ''Incorporated!'' Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art Contemporain (2016) *

Whitney Biennial The Whitney Biennial is a biennial exhibition of contemporary American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, United States. The event began as an annual exhibition ...

(2017) * ''Mechanisms,'' CCA Wattis, San Francisco (2017) * ''Signal or Noise , The Photographic II,'' S.M.A.K., Ghent (2018–2019)

References

External links

Air de Paris

Yale Union

Veneer Magazine

Taylor, Phil. "Aaron Flint Jamison," Artforum, September 2015.

Sladen, Mark. "Mark Sladen on information flow in the work of Aaron Flint Jamison," ArtReview, September 2014.

Fiske, Courtney. "Aaron Flint Jamison," Art in America, January 2014.

O'neil-Butler, Lauren. “Aaron Flint Jamison: 500 Words,” Artforum.com, November 2010.

Watts, Jonathan P. “In Focus: Aaron Flint Jamison,” Frieze, Issue 156, August 2013.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jamison, Aaron Flint Living people 1979 births American conceptual artists San Francisco Art Institute alumni Artists from Portland, Oregon People from Billings, Montana Trinity Western University alumni